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Jan Peacock

Jan Peacock Biography

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Limited information is available about Jan Peacock, born on November 6, 1955. His professional category is not specified.

Limited information is available about Jan Peacock, born on November 6, 1955. His professional category is not specified.

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“An artist may sustain a body of work as an ecosystem, in which every part is used to every advantage, not consuming any part without regenerating it.”

May Body Used Artist Advantage Consuming Ecosystems

Author:Jan Peacock

“The imagination is a spiritual apparatus. Unable to invent the world, it does the next best thing, and that is to assemble it piecemeal, ugly and strange, bright and clear, and dumbly discovered.”

World Doe Spiritual Next Imagination Clear Strange Ugly Best Things

Author:Jan Peacock

“In Banff, the mountains are really close to your head.”

Author:Jan Peacock

“Naturally, patterns emerge through repetition, and repetition yields up a type of discovery that reveals everything about itself, especially its sorry limits.”

Type Limits Discovery Sorry Patterns Yield Repetition

Author:Jan Peacock

“It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call yourself an artist and you can do all these things.”

Artist Can Do Poet Profession I Realized Epiphany Translators Linguists

Author:Jan Peacock

“What can be sustained and repeated without emptying out?”

Author:Jan Peacock

“Fear of repeating oneself, of repeating oneself may be the greatest bugaboo of late capitalist society. The fear has been marketed so effectively that a will to sustain attention on any one thing can be cancelled out easily in favour of the latest distraction.”

May Has Beens Attention One Thing Late Oneself Distraction Capitalist Repetition Favour

Author:Jan Peacock

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Born: November 6, 1955
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